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Red Wagon on East Hastings is included in the book, Where Chefs Eat.

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A new guide that spills the beans on some 2,000 restaurants around the world where chefs, themselves, like to eat, features 23 Vancouver restaurants.

Ranging from ramen shops and sushi bars to high end dining, the Vancouver list includes the Pear Tree, Gyoza King, Hawksworth, L'Abbatoir, Hachi Hana, Meat & Bread, the Red Wagon, and Chambar.

Where Chefs Eat: A Guide to Chefs' Favourite Restaurants (Phaidon Press), a 633-page collection, features personal restaurant recommendations from 400 of the world’s top chefs, including Ferran Adria, Daniel Boulud, David Chang, Paul Newman and Vancouver's Vikram Vij.

The guidebook is edited by Guardian critic Joe Warwick, who also co-founded the World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards.

The more than 2,000 eateries in the book run the gamut from breakfast joints and neighbourhood favourites to restaurants where money is no object. Nearly 75 Canadian restaurants are featured, including those from Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Shirley, and Sooke in B.C. Vancouver's list out-numbers Toronto's which features 15 eateries.

Also included in the book are categories for places the chefs wish they opened or describe as "worth the travel," whether it's across the country or on the other side of the world.

Noma, Redzepi's Copenhagen restaurant, along with Mugaritz in Errenteria, Spain, were the most mentioned by chefs in the "wish I'd opened" category.

Editor Warwick, 41, said diners can look up plenty of reviews on websites like TripAdvisor, "but who's writing these reviews?" Chefs, on the other hand, are known for their cooking or their restaurant, and their reputation is on the line if they send someone to a bad place, "so there's a kind of trusted voice there."

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